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I actually have some info about our adopted son, BUT he was 7 years-old when we adopted him, had been taken from his birth parents and placed in an orphanage when he was 5-years.
We were, however, warned not to fully trust the medical info we were given. Even if his immunization records were legit, there was the chance that the serum had been purchased on the black market, or that the serum the orphanage had been given was outdated.
He was supposedly given a battery of tests while in the Ukraine, but our pediatricians at home -- very familiar with Eastern Europe -- redid everything. HIV, TB, Hepatitis, -- he was retested for them all. They completely started his immunizations over. Said it would not hurt him and that way we would be absolutely sure he was properly immunized.
Now get this -- at the time we adopted, the Ukraine would not allow 100 percent healthy children to be adopted. They had to have some kind of medical diagnosis and it was pretty common for orphanage pediatricians to "find" something wrong just so the child could be adopted. We were told our son had mitral valve prolapse, an extremely common and non-life threatening cardiac condition, but enough to get him out of the country. Well, our regular pediatrician as well as a pediatric cardiologist do NOT detect it or see any diagnostic evidence of it...so his diagnosis was one of the fake ones listed in order to make him eligible for adoption.
I have copies of all the social service and court records pertaining to him and his siblings being taken from the biological parents. I have parents names, birth dates and a pretty good write-up of how lousy and negligent they were. (I also know things based on what our son has told us.) Our son has six bio siblings, all who had been adopted before him. (We would have never broken up a sibling group!) So far, we've found his two younger brothers, adopted and living outside of Naples, Italy. He has four older sisters who could be anywhere in the world. Records are sealed with cement, but I have their names and birth dates and will hopefully be able to locate them one of these days. The oldest would only be 20 right now.
As for family medical history, we were given no info on that.
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